Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE The fervent prayer of old-line Democratic operatives and corporate funders is that the Sanders Storm will dissipate now that Hillary Clinton will get the nomination, thus allowing politics-as-usual to reestablish its grip on the system. Here’s why I think they’re dead wrong: First, whatever else you think of […]
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What’s next for the Bernie Sanders revolution?
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Outside of Bernie Sanders’ circle, a multitude of Bernie supporters are not waiting on a smoke signal from headquarters. With the primaries over, a mushrooming, percolate-up creativity has already burst into new organizing projects that are advancing this energized populist movement. Here are just two examples: The People’s […]
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How to make a political platform
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Last weekend in Orlando, Fla., I spent two hot, muggy days wrangling over policy issues as one of the members of the Democratic Party’s national platform committee. The worst development at the Orlando meeting was the Clinton campaign’s acquiescence to the wet dream of global corporate powers: The […]
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It’s getting hot in Indianapolis
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE If the chieftains of industry and their political henchmen want to know what’s roiling the riffraff, they could read Thomas Piketty’s landmark 1,000-page book on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Or, they could just spend three minutes and 32 seconds watching an online video showing a Carrier […]
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Why Brexit shocked global elites
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE The most shocking thing about “Brexit” – the British people’s resounding vote to pull their country out of the European Union – is that it came as such a shock to the British establishment. After all, say the flummoxed elites, everyone who is anyone in Great Britain was […]
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Souring Chicago’s sweet treat
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE In May 2015, bakery workers in Nabisco’s monumental 10-story plant in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood had been expecting some sweet news from their corporate headquarters. Rumor had it that their renown facility – after more than half a century and millions of Oreos – was about to receive […]
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Is there an iota of courage in the GOP?
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE This year’s freakish presidential election has now devolved into an ethnic brouhaha between two foreigners: A Mexican and a German. The “Mexican” is Gonzalo Curiel. He’s a federal judge who was actually born in Indiana, raised and educated as a Hoosier, and is presently presiding over a U.S. […]
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Bringing back Bill
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE What’s past, as Shakespeare has told us, is prologue. 2016 has been a wild political season. This year, despite the unnerving presidential freak show the Republicans are putting on, Hillary Clinton is the one who recently stunned me. Attempting to convince very wary working class families that she […]
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A new species of jumping beans
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE It isn’t trickery, but an odd twist in the natural world that creates the novelty of “Mexican jumping beans.” They’re not beans – they’re brownish seedpods from a desert shrub in northwest Mexico. A larva from a small moth invades the pod, attaches itself to the inner wall […]
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The fury beneath the phenomena
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE 2016 has certainly been an odd year for the political and corporate elites. They certainly couldn’t predict (and then subsequently stayed in denial about) the groundswell from the masses in terms of the popularity of Bernie Sanders and Donnie Trump. The political cognoscenti have not understood the massive […]
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Meet Glencore, rapacious global lord
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE The beatings of American workers (wage slashing, axed benefits, union busting, mass firings, offshored factories and brutish abuse of worker rights) have been increasing in frequency, intensity and scope – mostly ordered by CEOs in the posh, faraway headquarters of multi-tentacled global empires. Let’s meet one of the […]
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What does it mean to ‘gig’ American workers?
Jim Hightower PHOTO BY LARRY D. MOORE Pouty, whiney, spoiled-bratism is not nice coming from a four-year-old – but it’s grotesque when it comes from billion-dollar corporate elites like Uber and Lyft. The two internet-based ride-hiring brats call themselves “ridesharing” companies but that’s a deceit, for they don’t share anything – their business model relies […]
